Imagining with an Overpass and a Fence

From committee advisor Kevin O'Dwyer, internationally known silversmith and director of Ireland's Sculpture in the Parklands project - In 1997 artist Laurie Lundquist worked worked with SVR Inc. Engineering to develop the Mountain Pass Pedestrian Bridge for the City of Phoenix and the Arizona Department of Transportation.

Located over State Highway 51, the Mountain Pass concept was inspired by the jagged profile of the nearby Squaw Peak range. The design uses the flexible qualities of chain link fencing both to meet the safety requirements for pedestrian bridges and to achieve a sculptural likeness to the mountains. Three hundred feet long, sixteen feet high, the creative bridge design uses only materials typically found on such a project: concrete, steel, and chain link fencing.